Conductor-gap-silicon plasmonic waveguides and passive components at subwavelength scale

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 11728-11736

  Wu, Marcelo ^a   Han, Zhanghua ^a   Vien, Van ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PLASMONS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; WAVEGUIDES;

CMOS COMPATIBLE; COMPACT SIZE; CONDUCTOR LAYERS; FABRICATION PROCESS; HIGH EFFICIENCY; INPUT/OUTPUT; LOW LOSS; PASSIVE COMPONENTS; PLASMONIC CIRCUITS; PLASMONIC DEVICES; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; SILICON CORES; SILICON ON INSULATOR; SILICON PHOTONICS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUBWAVELENGTH SCALE; Y SPLITTER;

SILICON OXIDES;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 77952852770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.011728     Document Type: Article

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